Posts Tagged ‘ Torpig ’

Mebroot root kit infection (aka Sinowal, aka Torpig)

Apr 3rd, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Information Technology, Security, Software Engineering, Web

I am pretty sure I caught the Mebroot root kit last night, or some variant, and potentially some other things, too.
I was working when all of a sudden the machine rebooted, without a blue screen. It did an orderly shut-down and reboot (XP Pro SP III). I did not allow XP to boot back up, [...]